New airline fees will be applied from Sept. 5 in Finland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, markets where the home carrier already imposes a card fee, and from 2 November 2011 in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. The fees will apply across all sales channels.
The AirPlus Debit Account currently is the only lodge product that will be exempt from Lufthansa's new "Optional Payments Charge," but only on bookings with the main Lufthansa airline and Swiss. The OPC also will be applied on tickets booked with Lufthansa Group's Austrian Airlines, British Midland International and Brussels Airlines.